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Sea Shepherd - November 11, 2004
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_041102_2.html

Taiji Halloween Massacre

By Captain Paul Watson

On October 29, 2004, an entire family of defenseless Rissos dolphins was
systematically exterminated in Taiji harbor, Japan.  The orgy of killing
lasted five hours as the bay turned red with the hot blood of the
sensitive marine mammals.

Because of the success in 2003 of Sea Shepherd bringing the slaughter to
the attention of the world, the fishermen have gone to incredible effort
and expense to prevent filming or photography of the hunt.

The entire killing area is now shielded from view by massive blue tarps
and white blinds. It is like some plastic cold war wall shielding the
world from the awful horrific truth about the cruel savages of Taiji.

Even more obscene is the blatant complicity by representatives of the
captive dolphin industry. The logos of Dolphin Base, World Dolphin Resort
and the Taiji Whale Museum could be seen among the gang of thugs and
butchers gleefully spearing, slashing and stabbing the innocent dolphins.

Occasionally during the day, a prize specimen was selected by a
dolphinarium expert, and the stressed young animal could be seen inside a
steel cage as it was taken away amid the death screams of its entire
family in the background.  The chosen ones were small and young, hauled
from the water and away from the bleeding, screaming bodies of their
mothers.

Taiji has become a war zone. Barbed wire has been strung around trees to
keep people from climbing them to observe the slaughter.   Anyone with a
camera is met with hostility and violent threats.

Taiji, Japan, is a place of horror and death, incredible cruelty and men
maddened with the perverse lust for blood.   It is hard to imagine such
sadistic cruelty can exist, especially in a so-called civilized society
like Japan.

But the government of Japan condones this horror and the media of Japan
ignores it. And the people?  Well, it is Japan, and the people do as they
are told.

The dolphins are dying in the name of this strange Japanese culture that
during the last century allowed the rape of Nanking, the sexual
enslavement of Korean women, the beheading of prisoners of war and the
Bataan Death march.

When will Japan join the 21^st Century and retire their passion for
cruelty and death?

With Taiji, the Japanese can now claim total supremacy in the art of
infliction of cruelty and death.  Months from now, Japanese children will
laugh and clap gleefully as these same few captive dolphins jump through
hoops and beg for fish. Not a thought will be given to the bloody price
paid by the dolphins to capture these enslaved entertainers.  The sterile
blue and sparkly dolphinarium pool will hide the memory of the harbor
filled with blood, dozens of dead and dying dolphins screaming as their
eyes are gouged out, flippers are torn, and intestines are ripped from
their bellies as blood spurts from their blowholes. All of this vividly
etched on the memory of the young performers-to-be.

Once transferred to his new life in prison at the dolphinarium, the
dolphin is forced to entertain the audience. I can hear a child now, Look
Mommy, hes smiling. He likes us. He must really like us.

In the end it is our collective delusions that allow us to commit
unspeakable crimes, for we humans justify everything we do.  The captivity
industry is quite happy for the masses to go on thinking that these
dolphins are happy and even happier that the public is not aware of what
goes on in places like Taiji.

And the killing goes on.

A Sea Shepherd crew is working in Japan to stop this hunt. It is a
difficult, dangerous and frustrating campaign.  Last year two of our
volunteer crew each spent 23 days in jail for the crime of freeing 15
dolphins and preventing their slaughter.  This year, in punishment for the
international exposure that Sea Shepherd focused on the dolphin slaughter,
all Sea Shepherd crew have been banned from Taiji.

Weve been banned from many other places, but being the only organization
banned from setting foot in Taiji is a particular honor and a challenge. 
It is an honor because it reflects that we have embarrassed the Japanese
nation and it is challenge to find ways to continue to expose and
intervene against the butchers of Taiji.

Visit our Taiji Campaign pages for complete details.

    http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji.html
    http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji_video.html

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